This video details the lengthy process of getting the Space Shuttle into orbit, primarily at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Celebrate the 56th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing with your kids at Space Exploration Day at MOSI. Read about all ...

Dr. Bernard Harris became the first Black man to do a space walk. His family watched nervously seeing him take off into space ...

The Space Shuttle Orbiter was a revolutionary spacecraft that changed the way we think about space exploration. Designed for ...

NASA followed last week's low-key engine test with the test-firing of a solid-fueled booster at Northrop Grumman's rocket ...

PROMONTORY, Utah—Northrop Grumman and NASA on June 26 conducted the first test of its Booster Obsolescence Life Extension ...

NASA’s latest hot-fire of RS-25 engine No. 20001 roared for the full 500-second launch profile, proving it can blast the ...

NASA retiree turned private astronaut Peggy Whitson was launched on the fifth flight to orbit of her career early on ...

Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls); Bottom left: The space shuttle Endeavour is slowly moved across Interstate 405 by a Toyota Tundra, Friday, Oct.12, 2012, in Los Angeles.

When the Space Shuttle program was active, astronauts would spend somewhere between five and 16 days in orbit. But a typical length of stay on the International Space Station is about six months ...

After working to improve the booster design and creating new management practices to improve safety, NASA relaunched shuttle flights on Sept. 29, 1988, when Discovery lifted off from the space center.

The Space Shuttle prototype Enterprise flies free after being released from NASA’s 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) over Rogers Dry Lakebed during the second of five free flights carried out ...